Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Family Fridays: Alexander at 5 Months

Another month has flown by and Alexander is now 5 months old. This last month has been a bit easier (than the couple before it), as Alexander has been napping more than 20 minutes at a time again. Now he'll he'll usually take at least one long nap of about 2 hours and often one or two other 1 hour naps. He's still not super great at sleeping at night, but a lot of nights now he'll sleep 5 hours in a row, and I'll take whatever I can get. He has also been happier and more easy going again. In fact he is super smiley guy lately. This is a fun stage of babyhood.

At 5 months:
  • He is quite vocal and babbles a lot.
  • He can push himself backwards when he is on his tummy.
  • He can roll from front to back and back to front, but doesn't often, because he has a tendency to roll off our play-mat and hit his head on the hard fake wood floor.
  • He seriously wants to try eating everything and loves tasting anything that we let him, but is still growing fine on primarily just milk.
  • He is 17 pounds 12 ounces and 27.5 inches.
  • He is wearing 9 month clothing now.
  • He really wants to do everything his big brothers do. And I have never seen a baby show such determination and persistence as this little one. At this point motor skills don't seemed to be his natural gift (like Andrew), but he like he will eventually learn anything he wants through sheer determination.
  • He loves to give kisses now (especially to mommy).
  • His brothers like to jump in whenever I am trying to get pictures of just the baby.
  • He can drool A LOT!





















Friday, March 1, 2013

Family Fridays: The Queen's Doing Dishes and Mr. Lincoln Is Doing Laundry

Mr. Lincoln
Lately Aaron and Andrew have been obsessed with Reader Rabbit 1st grade. When they are not playing the game on the computer, they are often pretending to be Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion. They even gave the rest of us roles in their fantasy world as well. Daddy is Ivan the Inventor. Alexander is Fluffy, the dog who eats all the time. And because I'm the only girl around here, I get to be Queen Cumulus, queen of the cloud world.

So one night while I'm doing dishes, Andrew (3 years old) comes running up to me asking, "Queen, Queen, what are you doing."

"Um, I'm doing dishes."

"Queen, Queen, why are you doing dishes?'

"Because the dishes are dirty."

"Queen, Queen, why are the dishes dirty," as he runs off.

Um, the King is working and our subjects are too small to wash breakable objects and knives?

Then later after we made our president's masks, the boys started pretending to be Washington and Lincoln all the time. So one day when I told Andrew it was time to help with the laundry he said, "No, I am Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln is going to do the Laundry."

Fine. I guess as long as the laundry gets done it doesn't matter if Mr. Lincoln does it.

And Mr. Lincoln did a good job with the laundry.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Alexander at 4 Months

Another month has passed quickly and Alexander is 4 months old. Growing quickly he is now 16 pounds 10 ounces and 27 inches long.

At four months:
  • He is starting to grab toys and put them in his mouth.
  • He definitely notices and plays with his hands a lot.
  • He notices and tries to grab his feet often, but he still seems quite surprised that they are there the next time he sees them.
  • He loves when his brothers talk and read to him and play nearby him.
  • He loves attention! He even like diaper changes and baths most of the time because someone is paying attention just to him. :)
  • He is still doing fine on just a milk diet, but is very interested in food. He has really liked the few licks of apple and pear he has had.









Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Name That Boy


 








We had to get, our oldest son, Aaron's passport renewed this fall and as we were selecting age development photos we realized just how similar our boys look when they are little. We asked Aaron who he thought the pictures were. He said the first one was Alexander, the next two were Andrew, and it wasn't until the forth picture taken after he was one year old that he recognized himself.

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